Tag: Competition Win

  • The SLF $1000 Working Class Writers Grant 2018 WINNER!!!

    This just in!!! I am beyond thrilled to be reporting that, this year, I have been selected as the WINNER of the Speculative Literature Foundation’s Working Class Writers Grant, with the first chapter of my new in-progress science fiction novel, I, Phoenix. Read more here. Press release below… ‘The Speculative…

  • August 2017

    STORY WIN! My tiny microfiction, ‘It Wasn’t There Yesterday’, has won the Great Eighty Challenge (for 80 word stories) run by Third Word Press. I wrote it at my last writers’ group meeting – so big thanks to Marian for providing the exercise prompt for that evening. It’s already up…

  • July 2017

    Two pieces of news this month. Firstly, my prize-winning story is officially published! Huzzah! 😁 Curiosus Cattus, which was selected as this year’s Northwich LitFest Short Story Competition winner, is out now in July’s edition of Ourtown magazine. It’s illustrated (eee!) AND the editor very kindly put in a mention…

  • June 2017

    I WON! Woohoo! My short story, Curiosus Cattus, won FIRST PLACE in the Northwich LitFest’s Short Story Competition…